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Contents Executive overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Technology overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Comparative technology overview. overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Three sample configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Configuration #1: Veritas NetBackup client installed inside the VMware Service Console . . . . . . . . 6 Configuration #2a: Veritas NetBackup client installed inside each virtual machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Configuration #2b: PureDisk client installed inside each virtual machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Configuration #3: Veritas NetBackup for VMware integrated with VMware Consolidated Backup . . . 10 Implementation and deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Configuration #1: Veritas NetBackup client installed inside the VMware Service Console . . . . . . . 11 Configuration #2a: Veritas NetBackup client installed inside each virtual machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Configuration #2b: PureDisk client installed inside each virtual machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Configuration #3: Veritas NetBackup for VMware integrated with VMware Consolidated Backup . . . 15 Appendix A: Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Appendix B: Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Appendix C: VMware Backup Proxy sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Executive overview
VMware virtual infrastructure software is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Considered by Gartner to be a megatrend, VMware software is making its way into data centers of every size. Recognizing this trend, Veritas NetBackup has engineered innovative, award winning data protection solutions designed specifically for VMware environments. This paper covers best practices for designing solutions forand protectingVMware virtual machines. As innovative as virtual machine technology is, it also introduces new data protection issues. Is it best to protect the virtual machine (VM) by backing it up via a NetBackup or PureDisk client? Is a NetBackup client inside the Service Console the answer? What about VMware Consolidated Backup? The relative advantages and disadvantages of these three backup configurations will be discussed in detail in this document.
Intended audience
As there are many ways of using VMware technology, there are just as many methods available for protecting this innovative technology. System administrators and IT technologists can use this paper to determine one of three recommended solutions for protecting virtual machines. Each of these technologies has relative advantages and disadvantages.
Technology overview
Two backup paradigms for VMware environments are discussed in this document: On-host backup: These technologies involve installing a NetBackup or PureDisk Client inside each virtual machine or on the ESX Service Console. This backup methodology is popular because implementation is essentially the same as with physical machine backups. The downside is that backup activity on one virtual machine may also impact the performance of every virtual machine hosted on the ESX Server. This process is described in configurations #1, #2a, and #2b. Off-host backups: This design takes advantage of the VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) technology. Introduced with Virtual Infrastructure 3, this SAN or iSCSI based technology offloads backup processing from the ESX Server to a separate Backup Proxy server. NetBackup 6.5.1 adds Granular File Restore from full virtual machine (vmdk) backups, an award winning technology offered only by NetBackup. This technology is described in configuration #3.
VMDK level backups Individual file backups LAN SAN/iSCSI Cataloged & indexed Windows files